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Message: [QUOTE="Jürgen Exner, post: 4798171"] The way you phrased your question it doesn't make any sense. You start a Perl script interactively bey entering its name on the command line or maybe by clicking on the icon in a GUI or programatically from another application, etc. HTML forms do not start any program and neither does IE (well, except for ActiveX Controls). What they do is submit an HTTP request to a web server and wait for response. Just think about it: someone could write a simple HTML document, that would be able to launch any program like e.g. "format" or "rm". Would you want to use a browser that allows that? As for the Apache Web server: you don't need Apache to run Perl applications or to run IE or to view HTML forms. For submitting HTML forms you need to connect to some web server somewhere, but that has nothing to do with Perl. Therefore the way you combined those four components in your question (Perl, HTML forms, IE, Apache) doesn't make sense because they have nothing to do with each other. I am sensing an X-Y problem here. You want to solve problem X, believe that Y is the best way to do it, and therefore you are asking about how to do Y. What is th original X that you are trying to solve? Chances are it is much easier to solve that problem than the riddle of your question Y above. jue [/QUOTE]